Re: tulip poplars

**f*@aol.com**

I have a love/hate relationship with the huge tulip poplar in front of my house. 
I love the look of it, and its beautiful yellow flowers in spring/early summer.
I hate how it constantly sheds small branches on my cars.
I love that Baltimore orioles nest in it most years.
I hate its countless seeds.
I love the shade it provides.
I hate the sap bombs that glue my car windows shut and cement my wipers to my windshield.

I'm not a glutton for punishment, I simply have no other place to park.
It's a beautiful thing, and it's the messiest damned tree you can grow.
JF

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Loewer <thewildgardener@earthlink.net>
To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tue, Dec 18, 2012 6:58 am
Subject: Re: [GWL] tulip poplars

GWL:  The following from the Biltmore Estate who do not bother with anything 
that causes additional expenditures:
"Asheville, NC--January 2004
    On April 13, 1895, Biltmore Estate Landscape Supervisor James Gall, Jr., 
reported that the alleÃ of 52 tulip polar trees leading up to the front of 
Biltmore House in Asheville, NC, had been planted. By April 3, 2004, the 
current landscape staff plans to have completed the planting of 52 new, 
young trees replacing the deteriorating alleÃ and restoring the landscape's 
historic appearance. The project to preserve Landscape Architect Frederick 
Law Olmsted's original design began January 5, 2004, and will be completed 
in time for Festival of Flowers, which begins April 4, 2004. In addition to 
replacing the trees, the roadway running along both sides of the Front Lawn 
will be widened to return it to its historic width with granite curbing 
replacing existing concrete curbs."

Over the years 32 were left intact but some had suffered storm damage and 
were outgrowing the ground allotted to them so the above action was taken.

Jefferson used the trees to great effect when planning Poplar Forest, his 
retreat outside of Lynchburg, Va.

Peter

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Amy Ziffer" <amyziffer@earthlink.net>
To: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 10:44 PM
Subject: [GWL] tulip poplars

> GWL: We have two aged tulip poplars (really magnolias) on our property
> and
> they do not shed in August, the leaves do not turn brown, they live to
> be
> 300 to 400 years and are a valued timber tree. Perhaps yours are an
> inferior
> cultivar? Peter
>
> Peter: Liriodendron tulipifera is indeed in the Magnoliaceae, it is
> indeed a valued timber tree with an unusual hue to the wood, and it
> can be long-lived, but that doesn't change any of the facts stated
> here.  The trees on my property (I did not plant them) and my clients'
> properties (I did not plant those, either) and our forest trees are
> the native species.  As a general purpose landscape tree, it is
> riddled with problems and to be avoided.
>
> Amy Ziffer
> dba A Shady Lady Garden Design
> 128 Green Pond Rd.
> Sherman, CT  06784
> Home office: (860) 350-3565
> Cell: (860) 248-0559
> amyziffer@earthlink.net
> www.amyziffer.com
> 

_______________________________________________
gardenwriters mailing list
gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/gardenwriters
GWL list website  http://www.ibiblio.org/gardenwriters
GWL has searchable message archives at:
http://www.hort.net/lists/gardenwriters
If you have photos for GWL, send them to gwlphotos@hort.net and they can be 
viewed at  http://www.hort.net/lists/gwlphotos

_______________________________________________
gardenwriters mailing list
gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/gardenwriters
GWL list website  http://www.ibiblio.org/gardenwriters
GWL has searchable message archives at:
http://www.hort.net/lists/gardenwriters
If you have photos for GWL, send them to gwlphotos@hort.net and they can be viewed at  http://www.hort.net/lists/gwlphotos